Police and crime commissioner election

Elections took place on Thursday 5 May 2016 to elect a police and crime commissioner in each policing area - see the police and crime commissioner election results.

For North Yorkshire Police area councils which held elections were:

• City of York Council
• Craven District Council
• Hambleton District Council
• Harrogate District Council
• Richmondshire District Council
• Ryedale District Council - lead authority
• Scarborough District Council
• Selby District Council

For each area, the 'lead authority':

• undertook nominations of candidates
• coordinated the results - see the police and crime commissioner election results

Each council that held elections had a 'local returning officer' to undertake normal election arrangements for voters.

Supplementary voting system

New police and crime commissioners are elected using the 'supplementary voting' system:

• the system is used to elect mayors, which is the closest role to the new Police and Crime Commissioner
• a simple 'majority system', unless there are 3 or more candidates
• if there are 3 or more candidates:
  • a voter is asked to indicate first and second preferences
  • if no candidate has 50% of the first preference votes, the two candidates with the highest number of first preference votes go forward to a second round
  • in the second round of counting ballots indicating a first preference for a candidate that lost the first round are reallocated according to the second preference indicated in the ballot paper

Also see

• Register to vote
• Vote by post
• Vote by proxy
• Voting information for students
• Recent election results